Defenseman Ty Wishart scored with 1:10 remaining in overtime tonight as the Norfolk Admirals handed the Albany River Rats their first overtime loss of the season, 4-3 at the Norfolk (Va.) Scope. The Rats were 3-0 in games decided in overtime, though they are 0-2 in shootouts. Mike Angelidis tied the game for the Rats, […]
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TROY — RPI will get a chance to win its own tournament for the first time since 2001. The Engineers defeated Bentley 5-2 tonight in the second game at Houston Field House and will play cross-town rival Union in the championship game at 7 p.m. Saturday. The Engineers got two goals from junior Joel Malchuk […]
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TROY — But it took awhile. Union and Lake Superior State didn’t score a goal through three periods and an overtime, and the outcome was decided by a shootout. Union’s Mario Valery-Trabucco, the second of three shootout shooters for the Dutchmen, was the only player to score, and that gave the Dutchmen the edge. The game will […]
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TROY — RPI sophomore goaltender Allen York will not play in the Engineers’ game tonight against Bentley in the first round of the RPI Invitational. RPI coach Seth Appert said York is sitting because of an upper-body injury. He did elaborate any further. “He could play tomorrow night,” Appert said just before Union and Lake Superior […]
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The Carolina Hurricanes today reassigned goaltender Justin Peters to the Albany River Rats. Peters was recalled Nov. 18 when ‘Canes goalie Mike Leighton suffered a lower-body injury. Peters served as Manny Legace’s backup for four games but did not see any action, a situation similar to last December, when he spent four games on the Carolina […]
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Union hockey coach Nate Leaman hasn’t gotten much sleep lately. Part of that is because he is getting ready for the Dutchmen’s game with Lake Superior State in the first round of the RPI Holiday Tournament Friday night. The other part he doesn’t mind at all. Leaman is a proud father for the first time. […]
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River Rats 4, Syracuse 2 After the victory the Rats boarded the bus for their trip to Norfolk, where they will play games Friday and Saturday nights, but LW Drayson Bowman left the arena on crutches. He did not play in the third period after injuring his right knee. His status is uncertain. … As expected, […]
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ALBANY — Newcomer Robert Hennigar set up goals by Matthew Pistilli and Chris Terry, and Jerome Samson and Jamie McBain also scored as the Albany River Rats defeated the Syracuse Crunch 4-2 tonight in front of a Thanksgiving Eve crowd of 4,132. Hennigar, called up from ECHL Florida on Tuesday, nearly added a goal himself […]
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